Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
November, 2002
Published:
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Vivir para contarla, or Living to Tell the Tale, is the first of three volumes of Gabriel García Márquez's autobiography and memoirs. More than a million copies have been published in Latin America and Spain, and at the end of the year it will be published in English, German, and Italian. This article provides basic information of Vivir para contarla and gives background information about Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
February, 1996
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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2-3
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Merengue: Ya te vas Sierva María/Te vas pa" tierra lejana/ Te vas morenita mía/Sin saber como me dejas|Paseo: De Puerto Antioquia pa" arriba hasta Yarumal/cuando salió Germán Serna en correduría/apenas que recordaba a Sierva María/me daban aquellas ganas de regresar.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on January 24, 2008.||The newspapers of the time announced that the first Colombian to speak to Gabriel García Márquez was the president at the time, Belisario Betancur on the morning of the twenty first of October, 1982. The tale says that it was García Márquez who congratulated the president.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||The woman who inspired García Márquez's Angela Vicaro's character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Margarita Chica Salas, died of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Sucre, Colombia.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Fidel Castro has been losing the intellectuals who stood behind him as moral support. Such people are Carlos Fuentes and Eduardo Galeano, who condemn the Cuban leader, although he's an old friend. García Márquez stands by Castro's side and by the Cuban revolution.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Colombia : Terra
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sección Opinión
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No longer available.||An opinion column about García Márquez and whether his book Vivir para contarla is an autobiography, his memoirs, or a new novel. The author claims that it is much more than that, that it is the historic retelling of an exceptional witness.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Available with subscription.|Gossaín begins by making an analogy to a story of an indigenous nomad who was traipsing across the jungles of the Guaviare, in Colombia, barefoot. Then he proceeds to talk about the use of language and imagination in the works of Gabriel García Márquez. Later in the article, Gossaín proceeds to take quotes from García Márquez's Living to Tell the Tale and analyzes the choice of words and diction.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October, 2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : El Tiempo
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Available with subscription.||This is an editorial essay which provides some information about Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, Vivir para contarla and includes some details provided in the book. It also states how not only is Gabriel García Márquez making his family proud, but he is also the pride of Colombia, of those who speak his same language, of those who also share the same kind of job. Vivir para contarla is not only the life of Gabriel García Márquez, but also the story, an allegory of the Colombia full of violence, magic, solitude, austerity, horror, creative spirit, and ghosts.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
September, 2002
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Diario El País
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Cultura
Notes:
The author mentions a brief synopsis of some anecdotes of Gabriel García Márquez as a child, as told in Vivir para contarla. Also, the author talks about this set of memoirs, the years that have progressed as a brief chronology, and quotations from family members.
Luis Soria Romero, Fernando Rayo Tierno, and Gala Blasco Aparicio
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Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Pamplona, Spain : Cénlit
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
166
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This article is dedicated to Pablo Neruda, who in turn dedicated a poem to Gabriel García Márquez, because Neruda belived that García Márquez was one of the best-standing novelists.